Textual content by Tom Appel
2025 Lexus LX 700h Overtrail
Specs
Class: Premium Giant SUV
Nation of Manufacture: Japan
Coloration: Nori Inexperienced Pearl
Seating Capability: 5
Miles pushed: 231
Actual-world gasoline economic system: 19.1 mpg
| CG Report Card | |
|---|---|
| Room and Consolation | B |
| Energy and Efficiency | A- |
| Match and End | A- |
| Gasoline Financial system | B |
| Worth | B- |
| Report-card grades are derived from a consensus of test-driver evaluations. All grades are versus different automobiles in the identical class. Worth grade is for particular trim degree evaluated, and will not replicate Client Information’s impressions of your complete mannequin lineup. | |
| Large & Tall Consolation | |
| Large Man | A |
| Tall Man | B |
| Large & Tall consolation rankings are for entrance seats solely. “Large” ranking primarily based on male tester weighing roughly 350 kilos, “Tall” ranking primarily based on 6’6″-tall male tester. | |
| Drivetrain | |
| Engine Specs | 457-horsepower 3.4-liter |
| Engine Sort | Hybrid, Turbocharged V6 |
| Transmission | 10-speed computerized |
| Drive Wheels | 4WD |
Driving combine: 65% metropolis, 35% freeway
EPA-estimated gasoline economic system: 22/30/25 (metropolis, freeway, mixed)
Gasoline sort: Premium Fuel
Base value: $114,000 (not together with $1350 vacation spot cost)
Choices on check automobile: Mark Levinson-brand premium audio system ($2660), 5-passenger seating bundle (-$1750)
Value as examined: $116,260
Audio-System High quality
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Professionals and Cons
The nice: Stable and high-qualify really feel, comfy and roomy cabin
The great: Loads of energy, stunning gasoline economic system
The not so good: Flagship pricing
Overview
We’ll name it the “Overtrail Paradox.” It’s the situation that exists when a product is designed with options and capabilities that will usually be emphasised for the aim of selling, however inexplicably will not be.
Overtrail
New for the 2025 mannequin yr, the Overtrail is one among 4 trim ranges obtainable on the also-new hybrid variant of Lexus LX giant SUV. The off-road prepared Overtrail boasts quite a lot of options that differentiate it from the remainder of the massive SUV vary. But, regardless of the {hardware}, the Overtrail options solely the subtlest of design tweaks. Extra on that in a second…
New Hybrid
Redesigned for the 2022 mannequin yr, the LX was moved to all-new structure and given a brand new title. The 2022 LX 600 changed the LX 570, and featured a then new turbocharged 3.4-liter V6 rated at a wholesome 409 horsepower. For 2025, a hybridized variant was added to the LX secure that includes a 457-horse variant of the 600’s V6. Each drivetrains mate to a 10-speed computerized transmission, include commonplace full-time 4WD, and have a 2-speed switch case.
LX 700h Trim Ranges
The hybrid, dubbed LX 700h, is obtainable as follows:
- Overtrail ($115,850)
- F-Sport ($118,350)
- Luxurious ($120,350)
- Extremely Luxurious (141,850)
LX 600
Non-hybrids LX 600 variations of the F-Sport and Luxurious could be had for $4000 lower than their hybrid counter elements, whereas the Overtrail and Extremely Luxurious trim ranges are unique to the LX 700h.
And whereas the Extremely Luxurious predictably contains quite a lot of very premium options to justify its very premium price ticket, the Overtrail—which remaining luxurious and refined—contains quite a lot of vital enhancements designed to reinforce the LX’s off-road prowess.
Overtrail Options
Included as a part of the Overtrail roster of off-road options:
- 33-inch all-season tires on matte-gray 18-inch wheels
- Entrance skid plate
- Entrance and rear locking axles
- One-inch suspension lifted for larger floor clearance
- Crawl Management
- Lively Top Management (AHC)
- Adaptive Variable Suspension (AVS)
- Multi-Terrain Choose together with the next driver-selectable drive fashions:
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- Auto
- Sand
- Mud
- Rock
- Deep Snow
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(Be aware that AHC and AVS are engaged routinely, as wanted, as a part of the Multi-Terrain system.)
Overtrail Design Options
What’s not included are badges, or any exterior branding that trace on the Overtrail’s rough-route potential. As a substitute, the Overtrail is just gently (and in our opinion, handsomely) stylistically tweaked. Distinctive Overtrail parts embody:
- Distinctive coloration palette, together with:
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- Earth
- Nori Inexperienced Pearl
- Eminent white Pearl
- Caviar
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- Matte-gray grille
- Darkish-gray grille, roof rails, and window surrounds
- Distinctive wheel-opening trim
- Black door handles
- Distinctive rear spoiler
- Semi-Aniline upholstery
- Open-pore wooden cabin trim
- All-weather flooring mats
Take a look at Automobile
Client Information lately spent every week with the brand new LX 700h in Overtrail trim with Nori Inexperienced Pearl paint, extra-cost Mark Levinson-brand premium audio system. All instructed, and 2-row seating bundle. All instructed, our check got here to $116,260, together with vacation spot cost.
Accessible Third-Row Seating
Be aware that whereas the LX 600 Premium and LX 700h Extremely Luxurious come solely with two seating rows, different LX trim ranges include a 3rd-row. The threerd row could be deleted, as on our check automobile, for a credit score (see costs above).
Cabin Appointments
In typical Lexus trend, the LX cabin is an amalgam of top-notch supplies and customarily restrained designed. Our check automobile’s darkish cabin might have labored to curb considerably the Overtrail’s premium nature, because the real-wood parts on the middle console and inlaid on the doorways blended too simply into the décor—it’s good wooden, it deserves a bit distinction.
Room and Consolation
All that stated, the LX inside is a pleasant place through which to spend time. Our LX was outfitted for 5 passengers, and whereas seating three within the rear seat must be thought of a brief situation, there’s loads of house for 4. Giant door openings permit for simple entry and exiting, whereas the added inch of journey peak did little to impeded cabin entry.
Connectivity
The Lexus touch-screen setup is clear, easy, and for us was hiccup free. The display screen is simple to learn, even in shiny gentle, and inputs are responded to right away. Additionally, whereas informal music listeners received’t automobile, critical audiophiles will admire the Mark Levinson audio choices, which is among the many higher premium sound programs within the class. The LX’s extra-quiet cabin helps underscore the stereo’s constancy.
Energy, Efficiency, and Gasoline Financial system
Underway the hybrid and turbocharged drivetrain delivers ample clean energy. The hybrid system operates nearly utterly imperceptibly, together with the engine cease/begin function. When tasked for passing or merging energy, the engine emits a clean, refined growl. No fairly driver can declare to overlook the V8 engine within the LX, because the beefy V6 is its higher by most metrics. As a bonus, we noticed 19.1 mpg in routine driving, a substantial enchancment over the 13.8 mpg we noticed within the final V8-powered LX 570 evaluated by Client Information.
Journey and Dealing with
The massive LX handles higher than a big SUV ought to, serving up a good quantity of steering really feel and properly managed lean in quick corners. The brakes really feel good, too, and dive throughout fast deceleration is a non-issue, not like the previous-generation LX. Journey high quality, too, is great. Solely probably the most damaged highway floor registers unpleasantly contained in the LX.
Overtrail Design
Whereas we basic don’t commit a lot on styling, we have now to confess to discovering the LX in Overtrail trim fairly good-looking. The monochromatic remedy appears to cover the scale of this Lexus, and the shortage of exterior badging is an aesthetic transfer that we expect Lexus patrons will admire. Will informal observers know that this flagship SUV is supplied with some critical off-road gear? We don’t know—that’s the Overtrail Paradox. However, we just like the look.
Worth
At practically $120,000, the LX 700h Overtrail shouldn’t be priced for the faint of coronary heart, although it’s the most-affordable LX hybrid providing. On condition that the considerably roomier Cadillac Escalade and Lincoln Navigator could be had for the same sum, the LX strikes us as a bit wealthy. However just a bit.
That stated, Neither the Cadillac of Lincoln could be geared up to hit the path, and—in our testing—neither is sort of so gasoline environment friendly. Had been we surgeons and never auto writers, we’d put the LX on our test-drive brief record.
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